Hawaii police officer: ‘You would have to kill me’ before I would enforce an equal marriage law

Monday’s equal marriage debate in the House of Representatives in the US state of Hawaii saw over 5,000 testify both for and against equal marriage, but one police officer shocked with his statement against.

Tenari Maafala, the President of Hawaii’s police union and an active police officer with the Honolulu Police Department, said he would never enforce an equal marriage law if it were passed in the state.

He said: “You would have to kill me”.

Continuing, he said that equal marriage went against his religious beliefs, and said: “I stand by my beliefs.”

Maafala went on to say that the state should be addressing homelessness and drugs, rather than same-sex marriage, and said that, if someone’s beliefs clash with equal marriage, then it does not amount to discrimination if they refuse.

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